Chapter 67 The decline has been determined

Jiaolan rushed to the Pearl Palace in a panic, "The Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager is not good!" Jiaolan's hands and feet were weak because of nervousness. When she staggered in front of the Empress Dowager Li, she was covered by the corner of her skirt and fell to the ground.

Empress Dowager Li just took a nap in a daze. She opened her eyes and said to Jiaolan on the ground, "What's the panic? I've been following my family for so many years. What shocked you so much?"

Jiaolan got up and didn't care about the pain caused by the knee injury. Her lips trembled and her tongue knotted, "Tai, Empress Dowager, out, something big has happened!"

The Empress Dowager Li closed her eyes slightly and said, "Get up and say it. What I have experienced for so many years has never been a trivial matter."

"The Empress Dowager, this time is different. The maidservant and the people sent by the maidservant could not return to the palace. There was only one small box. He sneaked into the palace by hiding in the drowning bucket. According to him, according to him, the doors of the whole palace were sealed by unidentified people. They were only allowed to go out but not allowed to enter. When he saw who wanted to enter the palace, he didn't wait for the waist card to be handed over. All of them were immediately dragged away by those people and killed by the mess. Even the guard guard who guarded the door was so scared that he hid in the palace door!"

"Is there anything like this?" Empress Dowager Li frowned, "Do you dare to run rampant in front of the palace?"

"This is nothing, Empress Dowager!" Jiaolan cried and said, "Li, something big has happened to the Li Hou family. Yesterday, the small box was mixed in the crowd. I saw Li Hou cut people like crazy outside the house with my own eyes, and then he committed suicide with a sword and died on the street!"

When Empress Dowager Li heard this, she suddenly changed color and said, "What, what are you talking about? Is Li Hou dead?

"It's true, Empress Dowager!" Jiao Lan finally couldn't help sobbing. "The little box said that there were also some strange people around Li's house. At first, he didn't know what these people were doing. He just felt that they were fierce and not easy to mess with, so he walked around nearby. As a result, he suddenly heard a noise in front of the door of Li's house. When he ran over, Li Hou had already After killing several people in a row, but looking at their clothes, they should be the people around Li's mansion. Li Hou's body was full of blood, but he did not mean to escape. Instead, he kept scolding on the street. What he scolded was... Oh, yes, he scolded Zhongxin Hou, saying that Zhongxin Hou was a despicable and shameless villain and so on, while scolding his hands. He waved his sword and didn't allow others to approach. He scolded for a while. A man in purple robe suddenly rushed out of the door of the house and stabbed us. The marquis was caught off guard and stabbed in the shoulder. The man said that the marquis was crazy and wanted his men to take the marquis into the house. The marquis refused. After getting up, he scolded the man a few words, and then waved his sword. I'm on my own!"

Empress Dowager Li was so angry that she trembling all over, and her face was like white paper, "Loyalty? Is that man in purple loyal? What about the other people in Li's house?"

"I don't know. The little box said that he was far away and didn't hear much clearly, but it seemed that the purple-robed man scolded by the marquis angrily seemed to be a loyal marquis. A few days ago, our marquis had dismissed all the servants. Yesterday, the small box didn't see any other people rushing out of Li's house, so how did he get back? Even he can't tell the matter.

"It's the opposite! Against him!" Empress Dowager Li patted the handrail and rushed up angrily, "Loyal Lord! Lou Xun, this vicious villain, what on earth does he want to do!"

"Report!" A eunuch hurried to the Pearl Palace, "Report to the Empress Dowager!" To the Empress Dowager!" As soon as the eunuch rushed into the hall of the Pearl Palace, he knelt down and bowed and reported, "The Empress Dowager, the army of the Changshui Camp suddenly entered the city, and no one can stop it. Now it has rushed out of the palace and surrounded the palace!"

"Oh? Who is the leader?" Empress Dowager Li asked.

"General Wu Chao of Changshuiying is still there, and..."

"Isn't there a loyal Hou Louxun?" The Empress Dowager Li seemed to have understood something, interrupted the eunuch's report and asked.

"If you go back to the Empress Dowager, yes!" The eunuch said desperately, "The loyal marquis also told the brothers in the palace to put down their weapons. Anyone who disarms and surrenders will be rewarded!"

"Come so fast!" Empress Dowager Li took a deep breath, "Jiaolan, do you understand why Marquis Li was killed now? Everything is for the tiger charm, for the imperial power!"

"We, what should we do? Yu Linjun? Where's Yu Linjun?" Jiaolan looked at the Empress Dowager Li in a panic.

"Yu Linjun?" The Empress Dowager Li sneered, "If the Ai family expected it well, Li Ren must have been killed. The Li family's father and son were both killed. Who else can be expected to lead the Yulin Army? Alas, the general trend is gone, Jiaolan, my Li family is ruined, and the imperial court is also ruined!"

"Report!" There was another earth-shaking sound outside, and another eunuch rushed into the Pearl Palace. "The Empress Dowager, Captain Yulin heard the news and rushed to the gate of the palace to escort him. He clashed with the people of Changshui Camp. Now there is a mess outside!"

Empress Dowager Li muttered, "Captain Yulin? It must be Li Hou or Li Ren's cronies. I didn't expect that anyone could stand up at such a critical moment. It's really difficult for him! You all go down, find out the situation again, and report it at any time!"

"Ye!" After the two retreated, the Empress Dowager Li waved to Jiaolan and motioned Jiaolan to approach.

"The Empress Dowager?" As soon as Jiaolan approached the Empress Dowager Li, her hands were caught by the Empress Dowager Li. Jiaolan shouted in fear, "Empress do you, what are you going to do?"

"You, go quickly to find a few pieces of palace and eunuch clothes, go to the Yaohua Hall, ask the emperor and the queen to change them, tell them the truth, let them be ready at any time, and mix in Gong'e and eunuchs separately. Run as long as you can run out of the palace. As far as you can, never go back to the capital!" The Empress Dowager Li said eagerly.

"But if the emperor refuses, you know the emperor's nature. He may say that it's okay to let Lou Xun arrest him as the emperor. What should he do?" At this time, Jiaolan has lost everything, and she has lost all the decisiveness and calmness of the past.

"Then tell him that if he is caught by Lou Xun, he will become the real puppet emperor, more puppet than the puppet beside the Ai family!" Empress Dowager Li trembled and said, "It's better to live than to die beside the mourning family!"

"Empress Dowager, you? Are you all right?" Jiao Lan didn't expect that the Empress Dowager Li would say such a thing. She was shocked. She almost thought that the Empress Dowager Li was overly stimulated and confused.

"Of course, the mourning family is fine. Remember, after the emperor and the queen change their clothes, you will shout 'vulsion, mutiny' everywhere, and let the palace people and the houseers mess up first, so that the emperor and the queen will easily mix in it. When you see the inner palace chaos, you will come back and take what the mourning family tells you, and also follow the emperor! " The Empress Dowager Li's heart was astringent, and a sweet fishy smell surged into her throat, but it was suppressed by her.

"Well, what about the Empress Dowager?" Jiaolan wondered, "What should you do? Otherwise, I'd better come back to accompany the Empress Dowager!"

"You don't have to worry about your family!" The Empress Dowager Li laughed sadly, "Who is the mourning family? The mourning family is the royal person, and death is the royal ghost. Even if you fight this old bone, the mourning family will not leave the palace, but the emperor is different. The emperor is still young, and you are still young. If you are lucky enough to leave the palace, you can find a peace and live a life of ordinary people, huh?

"But the Empress Dowager!" Jiaolan suddenly understood that this was the farewell words of the Empress Dowager Li. She once feared the empress dowager in front of her like all the palace people. She trembled that if the empress dowager was unhappy one day, she would not be able to save her life. However, the longer she got along with her, the more she seemed to be cruel to this, but in fact, there was another joys and sorrow in her heart. A woman is full of some kind of inexplicable feelings. Of course, the most important thing is that only when the Pearl Palace is around the Empress Dowager Li can she live a little like a person, "I am a maidservant..."

"Don't say anything, Jiaolan, I don't have time to argue with you anymore. Go ahead, be obedient, for the last time, don't let the family down?" Empress Dowager Li slowly loosened Jiaolan's hand little by little, and her eyes were full of compassion and helplessness.

Although there is no room for questioning the Empress Dowager Li's words, Jiaolan can clearly feel the reluctance of the Empress Dowager Li, but no matter how much reluctance they are, at this moment they are all very clear that there is not much time. The Yulin army, who has lost the coach, can resist the continuous rush to the palace for a while.

When the Empress Dowager Li finally let go, Jiaolan knelt down in front of the Empress Dowager Li, and when the Empress Dowager Li was in a coma, Jiaolan kowtowed several times on the ground, "I'm going to Yaohua Hall. Empress Dowager, take care of yourself!" Jiao Lan choked. If she hadn't suppressed herself, she would have cried a long time ago.

"Good boy, take care of yourself!" The Empress Dowager Li saw Jiaolan leave with tears in her eyes and sent her child. She put her last glimmer of hope on Jiaolan.

"It's time. It's time to go to the palace. Isn't it rude for the guests who come to the pilgrimage?" Empress Dowager Li said to herself, and a self-deprecating smile appeared on her lips.

"Is there anyone else? Is there anyone else in Zhuque Palace? Come on!" The Empress Dowager Li used a crutch and shouted that she had never been so arrogant since she fell ill.

The two palace people ran in in a panic. Perhaps because they heard about the mutiny of the Changshui Camp, the palace people looked more frightened than Jiaolan.

"Go and find the phoenix crown robe of the mourning family, and the mourning family will go to the court to meet the guests!" The Empress Dowager Li straightened her waist and could not say it.

The two palace people looked at each other and felt that it was unreasonable for the empress dowager to go to court at this time, but they did not dare to say much. They hurriedly helped the empress dowager dress up. They managed to tidy up. The two palace people carried the mirror in front of the empress dowager Li and asked her to examine it. The empress dowager Li looked at herself in her glasses. Dissatisfied, he said, "What's wrong with you two? The Ai family's face is so bad that you don't know how to put more rouge gouache on the Ai family!"

When the two palace people heard this, they were so scared that they quickly put down the mirror and wanted to make up for the Empress Dowager Li. Not only did the Empress Dowager Li push them away with a sigh, "Forget, no matter how old you put on rouge gouache, it is not as beautiful as when you were young. Do you know how beautiful the mourning family was in those years? As soon as the late emperor saw the mourning family..."

The Empress Dowager Li suddenly stopped halfway through, because from afar, there was another "report!"

The palace gate has been opened, and the rebels have entered the imperial city. There are countless corpses in Yongsheng Lane. The Empress Dowager Li heard that the blood flow accelerated, and another sweet smell surged in her throat. She suppressed her physical discomfort and turned her head and smiled at the two trembling palace people. "The mourning family originally wanted to tell you about the past, but now it seems that the mourning family no longer has this. It's been a while. Let's go. Let's go to the palace. The former emperor is waiting for the palace!"

In the empty palace, the Empress Dowager Li slowly walked to the high throne alone. How familiar the court was, every pillar and beam left her witness from beauty to white hair. However, now, life and death are like floating clouds. It seems that all she can do is only her own memories.

Empress Dowager Li sat on the throne and looked down at the whole hall. In front of her, she seemed to see Emperor Suwu in those years, the good times that Emperor Suwu spent with her, Zhuo Yuancan playing around them when he was a child, and Man Chao Wenwu bowed and kneeling to her. Her vision became more and more blurred, and her chest was sweet. It also surged more and more, but the expression on her face became more and more calm, and even the most beautiful smile in her life.